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. county, or of the superior court for Baltimore city,
may at any time after the return of the inquisition,
in term or during the recess, hear A motion to con-
firm such, inquisition, on such notice to the parties
as he may direct, and confirm or quash the same,
and if he quashes the inquisition, he shall order a
new one forthwith to be taken, but no lot so taken
or enlarged shall exceed in the whole one acre, in-
cluding the land occupied by the school buildings.

1867, c. 123 repeals 1865, c. 160, t. II. c. III. s. 4 and re-enacts the same as follows:

46. In all cases when school house sites are thus purchased or condemned, the cost thereof shall be paid by the school commissioners as other public school -property is paid for, and in cases where new school houses are required to be erected, and where a public school fund existed prior to January, eighteen hundred and sixty five, they may, at their discretion, pay out of said fund in whole or in part, the cost of such building, on the condition, however, that the interest of the amount so paid over, shall be charged to the annual account of the school or schools, occu- -pying the building or school house erected in the manner aforesaid. 1865, c. 160 further enacts as follows : SCHOOLS.	1867. c 123. Payment of sites.
47. In every school district in each city and county established as hereinbefore provided, there shall be kept for at least six months, in each year, one or more schools, according to population, which shall be free to all white youth over six and under nine- teen years of age.	1865, c 100, t II, c. IV s. 1. How long yearly, free schools kept.
48. In every district school there shall be taught orthography, reading, writing, English grammar, geography, arithmetic, the history of the United	Ibid s 2. What taught in district schools